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'I have been listening to the song you were singing. That is not the kind of song that sailors like, is it? So they had begun about sailors again; and the good genius Ormuzd was clean forgotten. A corruption, I am told, of 'haud thy way' 'hold on thy way. The song is a common one in the North of England.
This auld hoose is no a'thegither a heepocreet: it can haud the sun aff o' ye yet." Thomas had seen Annie holding her hand to her head, an action occasioned partly by the heat and partly by the rebuff Alec had given her. She stepped into the shadow beside him. "Isna the warl' fu' o' bonnie things cheap?" Thomas went on. "The sun's fine and het the day.
I kenned ye wad come!" "Haud yer tongue, Annie. I mauna be kenned," said Malcolm. "There's nae danger. They'll tak' it for sweirin'," answered Annie, laughing and crying both at once. Out next came Blue Peter, his youngest child in his arms. "Eh, Peter man! I'm blythe to see ye," cried Malcolm. "Gie's a grup o' yer honest han'."
I'll mak her my wife at aince; I swear it again before ye. 'I'll haud ye to it, mind, said the Minister gravely; then he inquired thoughtfully, 'What wull ye do by way o' further recompense for being saved the nicht? He paused.
Now, if he has really imposed the bourock on ye for an ancient wark, it's my real opinion the bargain will never haud gude, if you would just bring down your heart to try it at the law, and say that he beguiled ye." "Provoking scoundrel!" muttered the indignant Antiquary between his teeths "I'll have the hangman's lash and his back acquainted for this."
"Faith, that was a chield to haud oot ower frae," said Alec to Rory. "And ye said the sang weel. Ye sud learn to sing't though." "Maybe I may, some day; gin I cud only get a grainie saut to pit upo' the tail o' the bird that kens the tune o' 't. What ca' they you, noo?" "Alec Forbes," answered the owner of the name.
Hence, I am now in the position of the fugitive Queen in the well-known passage, who, "haud ignara mali" herself, had learned to sympathise with those who were inheritors of her past wanderings. Dr. Newman's hopes, and what most of his countrymen consider the hopes of truth and religion, are not the same.
The little man raised the stick again and threw it into the farthest corner of the room. It fell with a rattle on the floor, and M'Adam turned away. "Ye're the pitifulest son iver a man had," he cried brokenly. "Gin a man's son dinna haud to him, wha can he expect to? no one.
Shortcake, in a tone above the prudential whisper which their occupation required "haud it lower down Div ye think naebody can read hand o' writ but yoursell?" "Whist, whist, sirs, for God's sake!" said Mrs.
"Mother," said Garth, drawing back his head, but never shifting the determination of his gaze from Rotha's face, "what does she mean?" "Haud thy tongue, Joey." "What does she mean, mother?" "Whisht! Never heed folks that meddle afore they're axt." Mrs. Garth spoke peevishly, rose from her seat, and walked between Rotha and the bed. Garth's wide eyes were still riveted on the girl's face.
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